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TEXT: John 1:35-42
TOPIC: Reaching People Through the Sunday School
Pastor Bobby Earls, Northgate Baptist Church, Florence, South Carolina
Sunday morning, June 6, 2021
I have long believed that the entire church programs and ministries are determined by one major organization in the church!
I am also of the opinion that our membership, our offerings, our baptisms, are all determined by this one major organization in the church.
This major organization serves as the strong structure that can produce positive things or if this organization is weak, the entire church program will be weak!
The name of this organization or structure is the Sunday School!
There is nothing quite like the Sunday School in a Baptist Church.
What is Sunday School?
It is the church’s Christian education School that meets here at Northgate at 9:30 AM on Sunday mornings!
And I am excited to have Sunday School back in place!
Thank you to all our Sunday School leadership and teachers, our Director Deloris Isgett and all of you who attended our Sunday School restart today!
This morning’s message is entitled, “Reaching People through the Sunday School.
I really want to direct your attention to THE ONE who truly knows what it takes for the church to reach people.
His name is Jesus.
Look in your Bibles at John 1:35.
I’m reading through v. 42.
"Again the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples and he looked upon Jesus as he walked and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God."
And the two disciples heard him speak and they followed Jesus.
Jesus turned and beheld them following and said to them, "What do you seek?"
And they said to him, "Rabbi (when translated means teacher), where are you staying?"
He said to them, "Come and see."
They came therefore and saw where he was staying and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.
One of the two who heard John speak and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
He found first his brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah (when translated means Christ)."
He brought him to Jesus.
I love that last phrase.
He (Andrew) brought him (Peter, his brother) to Jesus.
Over the years as a pastor, I have trained church members to share their faith using memorized presentations of the Gospel.
I used everything from the Roman Road, to CWT, E.E., to FAITH.
Almost without fail, I hear the same complaints from many of my members.
“I can’t memorize.”
“I can’t remember all of that.”
I can’t learn all those scriptures.”
I like to ask those same people, “Can you tell me your name, SS #, address, and telephone number?”
When they give it to me, I always say, “I thought you said you can’t memorize?!” We memorize what is important to us and what we use often.
One of the things I want to do this morning is to teach each of you a memorized presentation that you can use to effectively reach your friends and family for Christ.
And it is the one Jesus used in the passage we read together in John 1.
It consists of three words and we’re all going to work on it and learn it together.
Are you ready?
Here it is: “Come and see.”
Let me repeat that so you can begin to get it in your head!
“Come and see.”
Say it with me.
Come and see.
Now say it slowly for those who are having a hard time.
Come….
and……see.
I think you’ve got it!
Now go and share it with somebody that needs Jesus.
It is obvious to me as I read the Bible about the beginning of Jesus' ministry that he is collecting people.
He is bringing people to himself and to each other.
We sing "people need the Lord ..." and that is true, but people also need people.
Adam, the first man, was the best of God's creation but he wasn't complete.
He needed someone else in his life.
God gave us family because we need someone else.
He gave us the church family because we need others in our lives for spiritual support.
And the Sunday School is the best ministry structure we have to build community, fellowship, caring ministry, loving accountability and spiritual education for people!
Sometimes people say, "If I have God, that's all I need".
That’s not true either.
Adam had God.
Adam had not sinned yet.
He was in total fellowship with God but he was lonely.
In John 1, we see Jesus bringing people to Himself and to each other.
Look in verse 39.
He turned and saw them following Him and asked: "What are you seeking?
What do you want?"
We don't know what Jesus and the first disciples talked about but we do know that at the end of their time with Him Andrew was convinced.
He immediately sought out his brother, Simon.
When he found him he told him, "We have found the Savior, the Messiah."
And he brought him to Jesus.
Now his brother, Simon, who would be called Peter later, would become one of history's greatest men and leaders of the early Christians.
What if Andrew hadn't brought his brother to meet Jesus?
Many of you have heard of D. L. Moody, the great preacher, founder of Chicago's Moody Bible and much more.
But do you know the name Edward Kimble?
He is the Sunday School teacher who invited Moody to visit his class and brought him to Jesus.
We all know the name Billy Graham.
How we thank God for Billy Graham.
Do you know the name Mortachi Hamm?
He is the one used to bring Billy Graham to Christ.
You don't have to be a Methodist to know the name John Wesley.
John Wesley was saved because he was invited and taken to a prayer meeting by someone whose name is not known.
You can be assured God knows it.
Garrison Keilor, the great story teller grew up in church.
As a boy he was taken to every meeting.
When he went to college he dropped out.
He had a lot of good reasons, he thought, for not going to church.
Every time someone would ask, "Do you go to church?" he would say, "No."
And they would say, "Well, why don't you go to church?"
And he would tell them why and they would leave him alone.
One day someone said, "Do you go to church?" "No," he said.
"Why?"
And he told them.
And then the person asked, "Would you go to church with me?"
And he said, "Yes, I will."
And Garrison Keeler has been in church ever since.
I’ll never forget the day, May the 14th, 1973 when a young girl named Karen at my high school invited me to come and see.
She simply gave me an invitation to join her at the local Crusade that was going on that evening.
The tent was up on the football practice field.
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